My analysis on ETH/BTC through multiple cycles (risk on/off, inflation regimes, rising/falling interest rates) and vs other major asset classes for @MessariCrypto
To the riskiest growth stocks BTC averages about a 35% correlation over the last four years while ETH averages about a 30% correlation over the same time period. Notably, Ethereum has been exhibiting a much lower correlation to low/no revenue technology stocks more recently.
As cash flow has increased for ETH the last two years, correlation to the S&P and NASDAQ has increased. As most are aware the top 4 names in both are tech giants $aapl $msft $amzn $goog
What about BTC? Strangely enough it’s been tracking closer and closer to the large cap value index over time. The top names in the Russell 1000 value index are Berkshire Hathaway, J&J, JP Morgan, United Healthcare, P&G, Bank of America, and Exxon.
On Interest Rate Changes--> No surprises during rising or falling IR environments, they perform as expected but notably BTC/ETH are still inversely correlated to real yields
On Inflation--> While BTC and ETH haven’t experienced a high correlation to inflationary pressures in the past, both tokens have popped the minute strong CPI numbers have been released the last few months. They also have tracked inflation expectations very closely
On bear markets--> As expected for price action but notably builders keep building and downturns seem to be getting less severe and less protracted
Correlation between BTC/ETH remains high but I bet this continues to deteriorate as their different use cases cement themselves. We see shades of that already
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What value do Crypto VCs actually provide early stage startups?
Six key value adds CT is mostly overlooking. 🧵
Attention
Every investment in crypto is some percentage fundamentals and some percentage attention. Some hardcore defi protocols like Maker may skew almost 100% towards fundamentals and some esoteric assets like meme coins will skew all towards attention economy. In 2021 there were roughly 400k tokens available for purchase, today there are over 2 million (thanks ). We are seeing an average of 15k new tokens launched per day. Additionally we have a number of tokens unlocked from previous previous cycle launches and dozens of token generation events from projects that raised capital in 2022 and 2023. In July alone there are $350m worth of token unlocks and hundreds of millions in new token launches. With the huge increase in the number of tokens and expanding number of verticals, attention is more paramount in crypto than ever.
Attention also brings more capital, both on the private side and once launched on the public side. Large VCs like Pantera, Paradigm, Coinfund and Dragonfly have billions to deploy and rarely write checks under at least a few million dollars. Their Investments create a flywheel because all else equal more capital means more potential to succeed through spend in talent, marketing, infrastructure, etc. Even more than in Web 2, crypto, smaller crypto VCs and community VCs are pack animals. For better or worse they follow these big investors and quickly fill out the rounds once one of these bigger VCs leads.pump.fun
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(1/11) Where are we in the current crypto cycle and where do we go from here?
In this thread I'll cover:
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-Predictions for the next 18m
-Investor implications
TLDR: You aren't bullish enough.
Lets dive in🧵
(2/11) Current State
-This cycle effectively started in Q4 2023 with anticipation of the approval of BTC ETF in the US
- $15b of net new flows in the asset over the first six months of the year
-Thew ETH ETF announcement on May 23rd gave a strong price bump initially jumping over 30% in a handful of days, but recent weeks have seen the asset give back all of these gains.
- We had a large deleveraging event to end Q2 with almost $1B in assets liquidated over the course of the last weekend.
(3/11) Current State
-MVRV is a ratio of an asset's Market Cap versus its Realized Cap (Cost basis of supply)
-MVRV has been the most reliable indicator for under or oversold conditions for BTC
-With a huge amt of leverage taken out of the market, we see oversold conditions
-The ratio remains at 1.5.Historically, above 4 has been a clear sell signal, and below 1 a clear buy signal
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Unlike other threads put in as many hard numbers for these predictions to make them quantifiable.
Also tried to call out as many start-ups/hidden gems as possible. Most launching in Q1.
15 for 25 last year.
Can we do better this year? NFA
1. Privacy protocols are front and center. At leats one wallet integrates direct privacy features for sending transactions. I like @elusivprivacy
The debate then rages on for ZK, FHE and MPC and which cases are best for each.
2. BTC ETF (duh), ETH ETF, and one other altcoin ETF (likely SOL) are launched by the end of 2024.
We are drastically underestimating the flows not only from non-crypto holders (10% increase as noted below) but from institutional investors and 401k accounts. This leads to....…